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NASA’s new poster for the latest International Space Station crew looks like it belongs in a theater lobby: six astronauts — REAL ones — in brown Jedi robes, wielding light sabers. “International Space Station Expedition XLV,” the poster says. “The Science Continues.” (Hey, did anyone clear this with George Lucas?) Suffice it to say it’s pretty cool, and shows the space agency continues to take itself less seriously as it tries to engage a younger audience, even as it engages in some pretty serious space business. In the shot are crewmen Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren, Mikhail Komienko, Sergei Volkov, Oleg Kononenko and Kimiya Yui. It...

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NASA’s new poster for the latest International Space Station crew looks like it belongs in a theater lobby: six astronauts — REAL ones — in brown Jedi robes, wielding light sabers.
“International Space Station Expedition XLV,” the poster says. “The...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push to offer public park land as a site for Barack Obama's presidential library received a boost Wednesday when the Chicago Park District approved the proposal. The University of Chicago has submitted a bid for the library...

LIVERMORE, Calif. Google has spent $1.5 billion around the world on clean energy projects cutting the pollution from millions of users clicking on search links, watching YouTube videos and sending emails, but now it's found a powerful electricity source...

"Outcast" is what happens when stunt men direct. The fights are marvelously choreographed, the swordplay splendid and the bloody body count high in director Nicholas Powell's Middle East/Far East quest tale. The script? Derivative, dim and...

The Force is with moviegoers.
"Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens" is the most anticipated movie of 2015, according to a Fandango survey.
The nation's largest movie ticket company said Tuesday that the upcoming franchise blockbuster...

Proposals to use roughly 20 acres of parkland in a Barack Obama presidential library drew hundreds of people Tuesday night to a South Side meeting, where passions flared among local residents and parkland preservationists.
Community leaders and residents...

"There has been an awakening. Have you felt it?" So asks the first teaser trailer, appropriately enough, for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," director J.J. Abrams' highly anticipated update of the classic space-opera franchise.
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A millionaire — an iconoclastic, private collection — a plan for a museum in a city park.
Sound familiar? It should.
It is not only George Lucas' proposal for a museum on Chicago's lakefront, but also one that is old hat for the city.
From its early...

On social media, readers responded quickly — and, often, negatively — to the design for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art unveiled Monday by Chinese architect Ma Yansong.
Here are edited versions of their comments, comparing the design to other buildings...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has launched a campaign to woo the Lucas Museum of Cultural Arts, a legacy project of “Star Wars” creator George Lucas, stepping into what had been a two-way battle between Chicago and San Francisco for the director’s...

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has offered "Star Wars" creator George Lucas a prime lot near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge for the film director's planned cultural arts museum, according to a letter from the mayor obtained by The...

Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o has been cast in the upcoming "Star Wars: Episode VII," Walt Disney Co's Lucasfilm said on Monday.
Nyong'o, whose first film role last year in "12 Years a Slave," earned her the Academy Award for...

Roughly 1,100 Chicago Public Schools employees are being laid off, among them 550 teachers whose jobs were cut because of declining enrollment, officials said Thursday.
The teachers who were laid off are eligible to reapply for jobs elsewhere in CPS,...

He was an abandoned child who grew up with the unshakable belief that he was destined to be a prince. How arrogant and sensible of him.
His personal hygiene was bad. He often wore no shoes and liked to stick his feet in the toilet. His food faddery was...

With Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's guilty plea last week to conspiracy to sell heroin, one question being asked by fans of "The Wire" is how other cast members of the Baltimore-based series are doing. The answer: Several are doing just...

While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article:
The history
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SAN RAFAEL, California (Reuters) - A San Francisco suburb on Monday banned smoking in duplexes, condominiums and other multi-family homes, with city leaders saying they hoped to lead a wave of such regulations across California and ultimately the country....

Jean Giraud, an enduring figure in European comics whose fantasy and sci-fi work — which he signed with his alias, Moebius — deeply influenced alien-world imagery throughout pop culture, has died. He was 73.
Giraud died Friday night or Saturday morning...